Defined by an "America"-rich ethos of linguistic roguishness and the expansive certainty in the defining powers of both the unimpeded imagination and the supple plentitude of words, Roth's fictive presence emerged into the American literary stream shaped, in the words of his cunningly persistent character Nathan Zuckerman, by an "identity .

Horse racing has always possessed a faint whiff of roguishness, a sense that, away from the sport's highest echelons, were you to lightly scratch the surface, evidence of smallscale wrong doing and fixing would become immediately apparent.

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